Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a military problem. There's no military solution. There is a business solution - and the sooner we can provide jobs, not with our money, but the United States has to provide the framework.